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Relevance: 8% Posted on: November 24, 2015
Government is supposed to defend our rights, including rights to property. When it doesn’t — or when in the course of its job it takes our stuff without due process — it ceases to justify its own existence, appearing to all intents and purposes like just another criminal…
Relevance: 8% Posted on: July 21, 2015
Sometimes the good guys win . . . but only when they stand up to the bad guys. Nowhere is this more true than in politics, especially with the increasingly vicious partisan attempts to criminalize opposition. On a fall day back in 2012, before dawn, SWAT-styled police with battering rams raided the private…
Relevance: 7% Posted on: July 18, 2013
Growing from a single Arkansas discount store in 1962 to the world’s biggest retailer and largest private employer, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., today provides jobs for two million people. In our modern world, that’s enough to make the Bentonville, Arkansas, company big labor’s “Public Enemy Number One,” with union-backed politicians (read:…
Relevance: 6% Posted on: April 25, 2015
Grover Norquist makes a good case: http://youtu.be/r3tFqzeXI0g
Relevance: 6% Posted on: October 1, 2014
I’m a republican. You’re a republican. It used to be that most Democrats were also republicans. Today, I’m not even sure that most Republicans are republicans. But I’m hoping you are, whether you vote R or D or something else. Or don’t vote at all. This is not an essay…
Relevance: 6% Posted on: July 4, 2016
In Common Sense, his incredible hit pamphlet of 1776, Tom Paine appealed to “the inhabitants of America”: O ye that love mankind! . . . Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe…
Relevance: 5% Posted on: May 25, 2012
When times get tough, the tough . . . switch currencies. A fascinating report by Eric Garland in The Atlantic tells of the upswing in “local currencies.” In the United Kingdom, the Brixton Pound is being floated, engraved on its paper notes the likes of “David Bowie in his Ziggy…
Relevance: 3% Posted on: March 16, 2023
. . . recently published on this site. . . . Date (links to PDFs) — Title (links to articles) — Topic: May 6 — Inflation & the Infirm Incumbent — Paul Jacob turns to the stupid economy and its chief apologist. May 5 — The Covidocene in Its Latter…